[Novalug] OT: Service industry and funding Free & Open Software
Clif Flynt
clif@cflynt.com
Tue May 11 12:24:52 EDT 2010
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:38:37AM -0400, Bonnie Dalzell wrote:
> ...
> The cost to me is more or less the same. When I was sharing the income the
> worker was supposedly motivated to promote the business as the more
> clients, the more income. However the actual attitude of the worker
> towards promoting the business seems to be independent of the method of
> calculating the income.
>
I'd bet it reflects the changing value of a dollar.
When I was in college, I worked nights at a fastfood restaurant -
generally 8:00 PM until closing.
Closing time was officially 11:30. If it was a slow night, we could
close at 10:30, and if it was busy we stayed open until the rush died
down (could have been 2 or 3 AM if there was a Grateful Dead concert.)
Working a few hours a day meant I had money for food. Working past
midnight meant I was half-asleep in class.
Thus, the dollars I earned in the first 3 hours were more valuable
to me than the dollars I earned in the hours after 11:00.
It was pretty common for student managers to take the 10:00 hourly
reading at 10:15 and the 11:00 reading at 10:45, making sure that
the last hour was slow enough for a normal close time.
As Bryan pointed out, a good citizen should pay for what they get,
either with money or time.
I vote my hours in a similar way to how I treated the work in
FastFood. The first few are easy, but the more hours I spend on a
project, the more they cost me.
I try to put the hours where they'll make the most difference. Thus,
I'm more likely to put time into identifying exactly how to reproduce a
bug in Denemo than I am in the gcc compiler. I'm one of a few hundred
Denemo users, vs one of several thousand gcc users.
Clif
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